ELA+3+Lesson+30

Topic: Make Your Mark- Helping Others

Common Core Standards: RL3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.

RL3.2 Recount stories, identify the central message, lesson or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

RI3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

W3.2a-d Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

W3.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

L3.2g Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spelling.

L3.4.a Use sentence level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

L3.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.

Suggested Student Objectives: 1. Students will draw conclusions and identify generalizations. 2. Students will ask questions during reading to check understanding. 3. Students will conduct relevant research about a hero of their choosing. 4. Students will develop, revise and edit a draft.

Suggested Additional Readings: 1. __My Buddy__- Audrey Osofsky 2. __Right Dog for the Job: Ira's Path from Service Dog to Guide Dog__- Dorothy Hinshaw Patent 3. __Rosie: A Visiting Dog's Story__- Stephanie Calmenson 4. [|Service Dog Article]

Resource Links: 1. [|Cube Creator] 2. [|Service Dog Video]

Activities: 1. [|Drawing Conclusions Activity] 2. [|Additional Drawing Conclusion Activity Ideas]

Assessments: 1. Weekly Test, Lesson 30 2. Hero Research Project Draft and Finished Assignment (students will work on this for lessons 29 and 30) -As a class, children a nd teacher will create dictionary entries for the word hero. Reviewing the parts of a dictionary entry — the word divided into syllables, pronunciation, part of speech, and definition(s) —students will include these elements in their definitions. After they share what they've written with the class, record a class definition on colorful poster board for display. Students should refer to this definition to help them identify heroes in their own lives, in history, and literature. They will probably have more than one hero. -Show projectables 29.9 and 29.10 to students in order to help them plan their reports. -Students will think about who their famous heroes are (athletes, singers, actors/actresses, presidents-past and present, etc.) They will research this hero and put information into a cube (use cube creator link above). Research should include: -Where the hero was born, birth date, interesting family information. -What makes this person a hero? -Why does student admire this person? -The person's job/responsibilities -A picture of the person -Several other interesting facts of student's choosing.

Writing Rubric, TE Unit 5, R17

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